STAR KITE
Bay Hill & Peter Hurley

September 28th - October 26th, 2019
Opening reception: Saturday, September 28th, 2019
6 - 9 pm

Higher than the stars, the star kite soars, astral energies projected back to earth, resonating through the paintings of San Francisco artists Bay Hill and Peter Hurley. In an ideal San Francisco, certainly the one that I dream of, the city would be full of characters like Peter and Bay–peaceful souls pursuing their art, music, and whatever journeys their freespirit’s crave. Instead we’re boxed in, stuck in a traffic jam of autonomous vehicle rideshares, cyborg humanoid machine-learned digital connectivity–oh but there goes Bay, silently skirting through traffic on bike with his hand painted jacket, a basket of books a baguette and a pile of fresh chard accompanying, and if you listen hard enough you can hear Peter’s band practicing in a warehouse blocks away. 

It’s this exact promise of sincerity, of devotion to artistic practice over all else in one of the most expensive cities in the world, which must be honored, cherished and uplifted whenever we can. Lest we forget the paintings?! Both artists have spent years honing a unique visual realm based in abstraction–Bay’s richly colored and segmented compositions and sculptural explorations referencing everything from city life to Chinese philosophy. Peter’s paintings are quieter, subdued color choices contrast a humble strength in shape and form–raw yet refined abstract paintings that feel blissfully eternal. And to that I say, fly high star kite, we’ll all be admiring here from earth.